{"data": {"id": 138359, "accession_number": "1962.292", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Wineglass and a Bowl of Fruit, 1663. Willem Kalf (Dutch, 1619\u20131693). Oil on canvas; framed: 81 x 70.5 x 7.5 cm (31 7/8 x 27 3/4 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 60.3 x 50.2 cm (23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1962.292", "current_location": "215 French, German, and Dutch", "title": "Wineglass and a Bowl of Fruit", "creation_date": "1663", "creation_date_earliest": 1663, "creation_date_latest": 1663, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["Netherlands"], "technique": "oil on canvas", "support_materials": [], "department": "European Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "P - Netherlandish-Dutch", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "Framed: 81 x 70.5 x 7.5 cm (31 7/8 x 27 3/4 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 60.3 x 50.2 cm (23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"framed": {"height": 0.81, "height_inch": 31, "height_inch_fraction": 0.875, "width": 0.705, "width_inch": 27, "width_inch_fraction": 0.75, "depth": 0.075, "depth_inch": 2, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.9375}, "unframed": {"height": 0.603, "height_inch": 23, "height_inch_fraction": 0.75, "width": 0.502, "width_inch": 19, "width_inch_fraction": 0.75}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "Signed and dated lower left: \"W. KALF 1663\"", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 304258, "title": "Year in Review (1963)", "description": "<i>Year in Review (1963)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).", "opening_date": "1963-11-27T05:00:00"}, {"id": 301805, "title": "Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century", "description": "<i>Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).", "opening_date": "1973-07-10T04:00:00"}, {"id": 309567, "title": "The Porcelain Connection", "description": "<i>The Porcelain Connection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-August 15, 1982).", "opening_date": "1982-06-22T04:00:00"}, {"id": 441949, "title": "A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands", "description": "<i>A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands</i>. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands (co-organizer) (July 1-September 4, 1988); Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (co-organizer) (October 1-November 27, 1988); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (co-organizer) (December 10, 1988-February 12, 1989).", "opening_date": "1988-07-01T04:00:00"}, {"id": 191843, "title": "Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720", "description": "<i>Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720</i>. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (June 19-September 19, 1999); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 31, 1999-January 9, 2000).", "opening_date": "1999-10-31T00:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Fra Rembrandt til Vermeer.</em> Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo (Oct. 9 - Dec. 6, 1959), no. 36 (lent by G. Begting, Amsterdam)", "opening_date": "1959-10-09T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and its Impact on the Western World.</em> The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago (Oct. 3- Dec. 1, 1985), no. 51.", "opening_date": "1985-10-03T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands. </em>Het Prinsenhof, Stedelijk Museum, Delft (July 1- Sept. 4, 1988); Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge MA (Oct. 1- Nov. 27, 1988); and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (Dec. 10, 1988,- Feb. 12, 1989), no. 56.", "opening_date": "1988-07-01T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Galerie M. Schulthess, Basel, probably sold to G. Vegting)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "Before 1959", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "G. Vegting, Amsterdam", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->1In 1959 the painting was lent to the exhibition, \u201cFra Rembrandt til Vermeer,\u201d at the Nasjongalleriet, Oslo by \u201cG. Vegting, Amsterdam.\u201d&nbsp; Little information about \"G. Vegting\" has been uncovered.&nbsp; A Wilhelmus Gerardus Vegting was a prominent figure in university administration in Amsterdam; however, he died three years prior to the Oslo exhibition, and thus was likely not the owner of the Kalf. &nbsp;</div>"], "date": "By 1959", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "(Duits, Ltd., London, sold to Piet de Boer with Frederick Mont and Newhouse Galleries)", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->1Duits may have sold the painting on behalf of Vegting.&nbsp;</div>"], "date": "Until 1962", "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "(Piet de Boer with Frederick Mont and Newhouse Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->1The Kalf painting does not appear in the sales records of Kunsthandel P. de Boer, suggesting that it was sold not through the gallery but privately through Piet de Boer, the gallery's owner.&nbsp; The gallery's archives do contain a photograph of the painting with an inscription written on the back - \"Duits\u2192PB+M+N\u2192Mus. Cleveland\" - that spells out the joint purchase of the painting by de Boer, Mont, and Newhouse Galleries from Duits, Ltd. and the subsequent sale to CMA.</div>"], "date": "Until 1962", "sortorder": 5}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1962-", "sortorder": 6}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Willem Kalf was the most accomplished proponent of the <em>pronkstilleven</em>, a Dutch term meaning \"ostentatious still life.\"", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Priceless objects crowd the corner of a stone table in Kalf's composition. Pieces like the silver platter, delicate glasswares, thick rumpled carpet, and a Chinese porcelain bowl with peaches and an orange not only represented the great wealth and global reach of the Dutch trading empire, but were also a way for the artist to demonstrate his skill in recreating various surface textures. Kalf used different kinds of highlights to render reflections\u2014quick dots, lines, and dabs of paint\u2014creating sparkling, twinkling light effects that subtly distinguish objects from the surrounding shadows.<br>In 1797, the German poet Johann van Goethe wrote that Kalf's paintings lead to understanding \"in what sense art is superior to nature and what the spirit of man imparts to objects when it views them with creative eyes. . . . if I had to choose between the golden vessels or the picture . . . I would choose the picture.\"", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20735394"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1962.292-wineglass-and-a-bowl"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Segal, Sam, and William B. Jordan. <em>A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700</em>. The Hague: SDU Publishers, 1988.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Niels de Boer, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 7, 2016, in CMA curatorial file.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Willem Kalf, Index cards of work sold, A \u2013 N, Duits, Ltd. records (1920-1979), box 37, Getty Research Institute.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Niels de Boer, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 7, 2016, in CMA curatorial file.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Segal, Sam, and William B. Jordan. <em>A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700</em>. The Hague: SDU Publishers, 1988.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Segal, Sam, and William B. Jordan. <em>A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700</em>. The Hague: SDU Publishers, 1988.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Segal, Sam, and William B. Jordan. <em>A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700</em>. The Hague: SDU Publishers, 1988.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Willem Kalf, Index cards of work sold, A \u2013 N, Duits, Ltd. records (1920-1979), box 37, Getty Research Institute.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Errera, Isabelle. <em>Re\u0301pertoire des peintures date\u0301es, par Isabella Errera</em>. Brussels: G. van Oest &amp; cie, 1920.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 308, vol. 1", "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>Vermeer, Oorsprong en Invloed: Fabritius, de Hooch, de Witte. </em>Exh. cat. Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.. [Rotterdam]: van Waesberge, Hoogewerff &amp; Richards, n. v., 1935.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 27, no. 63; reproduced: pl. 63", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cNew Accessions Put on Display at Art Museum,\u201d July 9, 1963, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr1136"}, {"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"Year in Review for 1963.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 50, no. 10 (1963): 263-94.", "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 90", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151974"}, {"citation": "<em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 125", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n149"}, {"citation": "<em>Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.", "page_number": "Reproduced: no. 167", "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 124", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n148"}, {"citation": "Nash, J. M. <em>The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century</em>. London, UK: Phaidon, 1972.", "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 73", "url": null}, {"citation": "\u201cDutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century.\u201d <em>Connoisseur</em> 184 (October 1973): 136.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 136, no. 13", "url": null}, {"citation": "Grisebach, Lucius. <em>Willem Kalf: 1619-1693</em>. Berlin: Mann, 1974.", "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 122 n. 267, 147, 148, 149, 160, 161, 272, 273, 277, 278, 279; Reproduced: p. 272 no. 126", "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 160", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n180"}, {"citation": "<em>Chinese Export Porcelains from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Harold L. Tonkin</em>. [University Park, PA]: Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 1980.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 9", "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 251; Mentioned: p. 250", "url": null}, {"citation": "Carswell, John, and Jean McClure Mudge. <em>Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and Its Impact on the Western World</em>. Chicago, IL: The Gallery, 1985.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 110, fig. 12", "url": null}, {"citation": "Sutton, Peter C. <em>A Guide to Dutch Art in America</em>. Washington, D.C.: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 339, fig. 93; Mentioned: p. 67-68", "url": null}, {"citation": "Segal, Sam, and William B. Jordan. <em>A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700</em>. The Hague: SDU Publishers, 1988.", "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 195, 249 no. 56; Reproduced: p. 249", "url": null}, {"citation": "Kujer, Susanne, and Michael-Rene\u0301 Ursprung. <em>Vom Leben der Dinge--Stilleben: Schulbegleitbuch u\u0308ber Gema\u0308lde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik des Sta\u0308delschen Kunstinstitutes und der Sta\u0308dtischen Galerie in Frankfurt am Main</em>. Frankfurt am Main: Sta\u0308dtische Galerie im Sta\u0308delschen Kunstinstitut, 1994.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 24, no. 18", "url": null}, {"citation": "Sakamoto, Mitsuru, and Tatsushi Takahashi. <em>Barokku 2</em>. To\u0304kyo\u0304, JP: Sho\u0304gakukan, 1995.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 298, no. 192", "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>Still-life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720</em>. Alan Chong, W T. Kloek, and Celeste Brusati. Exh. Cat. 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